Zeitungsente — Restaurant in Mainz

Great outdoor area in a pedestrian zone, with a more unique approach to ordering food. The 🦆 (Ente), as most locals call it by its short form, is a great place, especially in the warmer months of the year. (This review will mostly be about the outdoor area.) The Zeitungsente itself only offers drinks, but they have menu, from which you can order from the sourrounding restaurants. You can even order from any other restaurants or bring fiod yourself and eat it there. The waiter will oder for you, if you order something from "their" menu. Only real drawback in my eyes and the reason why the 🦆 is not for me in the colder months; the indoor space is a smoking area. I am myself a smoker but after a while and especially if more and more people visit it, the air can get very stuffy. But as I mentioned earlier, I really like the outdoor area with the long benches, good drinks and a cool approach to providing food for you customers. In my opinion, if it's a bit warmer, or cold weather don't bother you, it's a really great place to visit and enjoy...

This place is always full whenever we walk by, so we checked it out. Terrible. There are a bunch of benches so you have to sit next to strangers and because of this it is very loud and hard to converse. This is made even worse by the fact that there are people smoking cigarettes next to you (seriously, it’s 2022, what kind of nasty people still smoke?). The drinks were also weak and watered down. The service was VERY slow - it took 15 minutes to make our drink order and after 45 minutes no one had come to take our food order. Further, they don’t have their own food, they just bring food from the restaurants around them - none of which are particularly high quality. And the menus were missing pages. The staff was nice enough, even if incompetent. We got drinks and just went elsewhere to eat. I have no idea how this place stays in business. I do not...

We were a young american army family and served with the Airborne at Lee Barracks. We lived in an apartment a little over a block away. We ate at this little restaurant twice a month, when I was not in the field, during the period 1966-1969 and the food was excellent! The reason for this review is we were looking through our scrap book and noticed the picture we took of our favorite restaurant in Mainz. Of course we did not have multimedia in those days (I was in my 20s now I'm in my 70s. We got to know the owners then and when we left they gave the wine bottle candle from the table we always sat at. It is still on our bucket list to get back there someday. Again,...